Re: Re: HYB: Guest seedlings

It sounds like one of my favorite color combinations.  
I just planted nearly 400 little seedlings from last year and still have to make a place for one more pot full.  I won't have much planting to do next  year though because scarcely anything is taking.  Out of about thirty tries, I see the start of three pods.  We have had temperatures in the upper 90's with less than 10% humidity.  I sympathize with iris problems caused  by bad weather.  We just have a different kind of bad.
Francelle Edwards   Glendale,  AZ   Zone9
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Linda Mann 
  To: iris-talk@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 6:18 PM
  Subject: [iris-talk] Re: HYB: Guest seedlings


  <I'd love to see a picture of this, Linda.  In lieu of a picture, how
  about giving us a description.  What color is it?  I'm proud that you
  are going to send it to the convention.  ....Right now I am growing 157
  guest irises that I'm growing for the region 15 spring treck next year.
  Some are wonderful.  Some doesn't seem to be as good as some of my
  seedlings.  But the hybridizers shouldn't be ashamed of any of them.
  That's what guest gardens are for, to see how they do in different
  environments.>  Francelle Edwards   Glendale, AZ    Zone 9

  I know, thanks for the encouragement Francelle.  But I just keep seeing
  all its faults.

  I posted a photo of one bloom at the end of October 2001, picked and
  taken indoors, but it doesn't really do it justice & the colors are off
  (too blue on my monitor).  I can try again, but it looks so wretched
  after being drowned, frozen, then fried, it won't look like much - lots
  of leaves and short stalks.  It's more or less a bicolor, pale lavender
  fading to white standards and lavender fading to rosy lavender falls,
  with a lot of freckled veining at the throat.  Nothing to get excited
  about as far as color and pattern go.  But when I look at this clump and
  compare it to the wretched looking AM & HM award winners trying to grow
  here, it really looks phenominal.  Some of them have tiny little MTB
  sized flowers on tall skinny stalks, many bloomstalks are just
  shriveling up, and several plants are going belly up as well.

  Linda Mann east Tennessee USA zone 7/8



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